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What you mean the say is "there are less abstraction layers".

• Piskvorrr 10y ago
  *fewer
  • hueving 10y ago
    Nah, 'less' because abstraction layers are not as defined as we want to believe so they are more like spackle piled onto a foundation. :)
    • Piskvorrr 10y ago
      That's the best explanation of a language quirk I've heard for a long, long time! :)
    • kenbellows 10y ago
      As long as we're being pedantic, it's definitely 'fewer'. 'Less' is only used in cases where you couldn't conceptually talk about a single instance of the thing being described. 'Less distance', but 'fewer miles'; 'less abstraction', but 'fewer layers of abstraction'. Even if in practice it may be difficult to find the edges of a single layer of abstraction, the word 'layers' is still metaphorically talking about a collection of individual items, and whenever this is the case we use 'fewer'.
  • wlievens 10y ago
    I know no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK!